A Beatles tour guide and his Australian passenger spoke of their shock after turning up at John Lennon’s former home this morning to find it was at the centre of a suspected murder scene .

Tour guide Jay Riley visits Falkner Street twice a day as part of his taxi tour because number 36 is where John and his wife Cynthia lived in the early 1960s in a flat owned by Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

Beatles fan David McGann, 35, from Melbourne was with him in his cab this morning.

Jay said: “It is the first time I have turned up to anything like this.

“I’m really surprised actually.

“I heard it on the news this morning but I didn’t know that it was this house - number 36.